Why Progressive Christians Are Wrong To Pit Jesus Against Paul

If you’ve read books by Progressive Christians or argued with one on social media, you may have noticed that they have a tendency to pit the words of Jesus in the gospels against the words of Paul in the Pauline epistles. Let’s say the topic is homosexuality. You believe that God disapproves of same sex unions, so you quote Romans 1:26-27 which says “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the ...